HOLIDAY FEAR
Short Film - 2017 - 4 Minutes
In the final act of a slasher film, Bruce attempts to reclaim his manliness and impress the final girl by finishing off the killer.
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Fantasia International Film Festival (Canada) - Telluride Horror Show - FilmQuest - Ithaca Fantastik - Nightmares Film Festival - Panic Fest
Other Worlds/Under Worlds Austin (Best Short Director) - Sin City Horror Festival (Best Short, Actor & Actress) - ScareLA
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Negative Fest - SpookScreen (Ireland) - BoneBat Comedy of Horrors Festival - Spooky Film Festival - NOLA Horror Film Fest
Indie Horror Film Festival - Landshut Short Film Festival (Germany) - Fake Flesh Film Festival (Canada) - Stuff MX (Mexico)
Terror in the Bay Film Festival (Canada) - Little Terrors, Toronto (Canada) - Ottawa Spookshow & Fantastic Film Festival (Canada)
Monsters of Films (Sweden) - El Vampirascopio (Mexico) - Montevideo Fantastic Film Festival (Uruguay) - IndieWorks (NYC)
TRASH - 9th International Fantastic Film Festival (Brazil) - LUSCA Fantastic Film Fest (Puerto Rico)
Poster by Alex Flannery
CREW
Writer/Director/Producer: Nicholas Payne Santos
DP/Producer: Kyle I. Kelley
Producer: Matthew John Lawrence
Assistant Director: Kristy Richman
Assistant Camera: Gina Hackett
Location Sound: Brian Velsor
Sound Design/Mix: Jordan Eusebio
Makeup Artist: Shondell Baijoo
Production Assistant: Jason Savio
Original Score: COSMIC MONSTER
Horizontal Poster: Dan McCann
CAST
Emily: Rebeca Robles
Bruce: Eric Whitten
Killer Santa: Ben Elder
STILLS / BTS
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
At the end of September 2016, I sat down to write a script like no other I'd written before: a feel-good romantic comedy. By Halloween, the screenplay had morphed into a meta-horror-comedy about machismo in film. Not exactly what I set out to write, but a story that spoke to me, nonetheless. As a kid, my friends and I had movie marathons every weekend, renting VHS tapes from the local Blockbuster's horror section. HOLIDAY FEAR picks up at the very end of a typical Slasher movie, where the killer is seemingly dead, but wakes up with a vengeance just as the heroes thought they were safe. The film takes on what it means to be a man in a relationship while poking fun at the genre that I love.